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Medical News Today: 09-29-2004
Prosecutors will use equipment to analyze brain waves in an effort to make use of advanced technology for investigations, the South Korea Supreme Public Prosecutors' Office said Wednesday... click link for more info.
WHO and partners act to reduce the maternal death toll of half a million women each year
Every minute of every day, at least one woman in developing countries dies in childbirth -- more than half a million each year... click link for more info.
A simple clinical scale can identify patients at risk of infection by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), researchers claimed this week... click link for more info.
Cats in the home increase the risk of asthma in children by spreading airborne fungi, according to new research... click link for more info.
About 63% of high school students in Memphis, Tenn, have had sex, and nearly one-third have had four or more sexual partners, according to a survey of Memphis middle and high school students that was released Monday, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reports... click link for more info.
Scientists who have formed a new political action committee on Monday announced they plan to visit closely contested states in the presidential election during the next month to speak about how President Bush's administration "has ignored and misused science," the New York Times reports (Chang, New York Times, 9/28)... click link for more info.
CMS officials on Tuesday issued a proposed rule that would expand Medicare coverage for implantable cardioverter defibrillators, a move that would increase the number of eligible beneficiaries by one-third, to about 500,000, the New York Times reports... click link for more info.
USA Today on Wednesday examined the search for an effective HIV/AIDS vaccine, as researchers "realize their work is still just beginning" following a "steady drumbeat of discouraging results" from clinical testing... click link for more info.
A Food Standards Agency (UK) survey has found that shoppers are often being misled by minced meat labels which claim that the product contains less fat than it actually does... click link for more info.
What is the proposal on medicines for children, what is the objective?
On 29 September 2004, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a regulation of the Council and the European Parliament on medicinal products for paediatric use... click link for more info.
Today, the European Commission has adopted a proposal for a regulation on medicines for children that aims to improve the health of the children of Europe by ensuring the authorisation of medicines, specifically researched and developed to meet their therapeutic needs... click link for more info.
Herbal remedies have recently received media coverage... click link for more info.
Walking regularly may be linked with better mental ability and a lower risk of developing dementia in older men and women, according to two new studies in the 22 September 2004 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)... click link for more info.
Dr Choong-Siew Yong, Psychiatrist and Chair of the AMA's (Australian Medical Association's) Public Health Committee, said today the Coalition's mental health policy is disappointing in its lack of detail... click link for more info.
AMA (Australian Medical Association) Vice President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, said today that Labor's Medicare Gold policy is a genuine attempt to provide the long-awaited and much-needed links between hospital care, community care and aged care to ensure that older Australians have access to the right type of care in the right environment when they most need it... click link for more info.
This bulletin summarises information about contraceptive services provided by the NHS in England in 2003-04; some information about earlier years is included... click link for more info.
Presentation of results from first ever pan-European survey of public perceptions of psoriasis
WHY?
Psoriasis, a chronic skin disorder that can be extremely itchy, painful and disfiguring, affects 1 person in 50... click link for more info.
Studies have shown that patients with asthma who are started on inhaled corticosteroids early might benefit more than those started later... click link for more info.
Patients suffering from upper airways collapse during sleep (sleep apnoea) are commonly treated by a pneumatic splint provided by positive pressure applied at the nose... click link for more info.
Interleukin (IL) -1 beta is a cytokine that belongs to a family of molecules known as the IL-1 axis, whose members can exert either pro- or anti-inflammatory effects... click link for more info.
Alexandra Ek (Division of Physiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden) and her colleagues studied the effect of corticosteroids on airway inflammatory response induced by inhalation of organic dust in healthy individuals working in a swine barn... click link for more info.
Asthma, the most common respiratory disease in childhood and type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes are both immune-mediated inflammatory chronic diseases, with genetic and environmental factors playing important roles... click link for more info.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as caused by cigarette smoking is one of the most common airway diseases... click link for more info.
The Austrian company Inte:Ligand, which is specialized on the development of new drugs by computer simulation, today
launches a new software package for modern drug design: "ilib diverse" provides pharma-companies with the possibility to design better medicaments in a faster way... click link for more info.
Referring heavy drinkers for counselling at the time they attend hospital emergency departments for alcohol-related health problems could be an effective way of reducing subsequent alcohol consumption, suggest authors of a UK study published online by http://www... click link for more info.
UK - The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is staging a workshop today (29 September) on the sexual health crisis affecting young people... click link for more info.
UK - £20 per month (plus VAT) buys a new approach to website ownership created specifically for General Practice - fully inclusive of design, build, hosting and management... click link for more info.
Results from TREAT Patient Registry, Largest Registry of Its Kind, Presented at United European Gastroenterology Week
PRAGUE, 28 SEPTEMBER, 2004 - Data from a prospective analysis of 5,807 "real-world" patients affirm the safety of REMICADE® (infliximab) in the treatment of Crohn's disease (CD), a chronic inflammatory bowel disorder... click link for more info.
Results Presented at United European Gastroenterology Week Demonstrate Additional Benefit of REMICADE, the Only Biologic Therapy Approved for Crohn's Disease, in Alleviating Debilitating Symptoms
PRAGUE, 28 September, 2004 - New data from the ACCENT I (A Crohn's disease Clinical trial Evaluating infliximab in a New long-term Treatment regimen) trial, the largest study of a biologic therapy ever conducted in Crohn's disease (CD), demonstrate that treatment with REMICADE® (infliximab) results in a highly significant and substantial rapid reduction of pain in patients with CD... click link for more info.
Geneva, Switzerland: Arsenic trioxide - a highly poisonous substance best known as an effective weed killer or pesticide and notorious for being a favourite 'weapon' of choice in murder mystery novels, is being re-invented as a treatment for a rare type of leukaemia... click link for more info.
Genetic predictive test clears way for targeted drug treatment
Geneva, Switzerland: An international team of scientists and cancer specialists has identified which patients with the deadly form of brain tumours called glioblastomas are likely to live longer if they are treated with temozolomide, and which patients are likely to get only marginal, if any, benefit... click link for more info.
Geneva, Switzerland: Imatinib - or Glivec as it also known - looks as if it may become an effective treatment for yet another type of cancer... click link for more info.
Geneva, Switzerland - Phase II trials of the first second-generation antisense cancer drug to be used in patients are soon to be underway in the wake of a successful Phase I study, which has demonstrated that the new drug blocks its target gene in exactly the way it is designed to do... click link for more info.
UK - The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is running a one day workshop designed to give advice to GPs treating patients addicted to crack cocaine... click link for more info.
UK - The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is presenting a Cornish GP practice with an award for outstanding general practice... click link for more info.
UK - The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is in discussions to provide training for family doctors in Shanghai... click link for more info.
Epilepsy Action has developed a new information booklet called 'New to Epilepsy in Later Life'... click link for more info.
The risks and benefits of drinking alcohol
Scientists, doctors and the media have taken two sides to the debate over the positive and negative effects of alcohol consumption... click link for more info.
As part of the BMA's 'Breathe better in Scotland' campaign, senior doctors today (Wednesday 29 September) delivered 1000 letters from doctors in Scotland calling on the First Minister, Jack McConnell, to legislate for smokefree public places... click link for more info.
Lodovico Balducci, MD, and Martine Extermann, MD, are two of four co-editors of a new text book, Comprehensive Geriatric Oncology... click link for more info.
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